Honorary inscription for king Ptolemy IX Soter II
IGCyr015900
Trismegistos ID: 5995
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 606.
Support
White marble base, formerly used for IGCyr015800 (0.76; 0.25;0.92).
Layout
Inscribed on the right side of IGCyr015800.
Letters
0.022.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
108 or 107 B.C. (reign)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 71, n. 9 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.62. Cf. Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography ; Mooren, 1975 Mooren, L., 1975, The Aulic Titulature in Ptolemaic Egypt. Introduction and Prosopography, Brussel - see in bibliography , n. 0372; Mooren, 1977 Mooren, L., 1977, Le hiérarchie de cour ptolémaïque. Contribution à l'étude des institutions et des classes dirigeantes à l'époque hellénistique, Lovanii - see in bibliography , pp. 186-188; Hauben, 1977 Hauben H.1977, Was Stolos a Cyrenaean?, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)25, 221-226 - see in bibliography ; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 445-446 and 462, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1899; Savalli-Lestrade, 2009 Savalli-Lestrade, I., 2009, Usages civiques et usages dynastiques de la damnatio memoriae dans le monde hellénistique (323-30 av. J.-C.), in S. Benoist, A. Daguet-Gagey, C. Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, S. Lefebvre (eds), Mémoires partagées, mémoires disputées: écriture et réécriture de l'histoire, Metz, 127-158 - see in bibliography , pp. 147, 157, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 59.1958; Criscuolo, 2011 Criscuolo, L., 2011, I due testamenti di Tolemeo VIII Evergete II, in A. Jördens, J.Fr. Quack (eds.), Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äusserem Druck: die Zeit Ptolemaios' VI. bis VIII.: internationales Symposion Heidelberg 16.-19.9.2007, Wiesbaden, 132-150 - see in bibliography , p. 137 footnote 22.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
(Statue) du roi Ptolémée, Dieu Sôtèr, fils du roi Ptolémée Dieu Evergète, (érigée), par Stolos, fils de Théôn, des Premiers Amis, arkhédéatros (i.e. intendant en chef) et préposé aux rênes, en raison des bienfaits qu'il lui a prodigués.
English translation
(Statue) of king Ptolemy, God Soter, son of king Ptolemy God Euergetes, (erected) by Stolos, son of Theon, of the First Friends, archedeatros (i.e. chief steward) and in charge of the reins, on behalf of the benefactions provided to himself.
Italian translation
(Statua) del re Tolemeo, Dio Sotere, figlio del re Tolemeo Dio Evergete, (eretta) da Stolos, figlio di Theon, dei Primi Amici, archedeatros (i.e. capo maggiordomo) e preposto alle briglie, in considerazione dei benefici a lui concessi.
Commentary
This inscription and IGCyr063000, both in very good condition, have allowed to restore another dedication by Stolos erected in the port of Cyrene (IGCyr102500).
On Stolos, the Athenian admiral, see Bagnall, 1972 Bagnall, R.S., 1972, Stolos the Admiral, Phoenix26, 358-368 - see in bibliography , who proposes for the Cyrenaean dedications a date between 108 and 103 B.C.; Hauben, 1977 Hauben H.1977, Was Stolos a Cyrenaean?, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)25, 221-226 - see in bibliography , who explores the possibility that he was a born-Cyrenaean granted Athenian citizenship. On behalf of his aulic title and offices Mooren, 1977 Mooren, L., 1977, Le hiérarchie de cour ptolémaïque. Contribution à l'étude des institutions et des classes dirigeantes à l'époque hellénistique, Lovanii - see in bibliography , p. 187, considers this inscription as dating from 108 B.C., somewhat later in the year than IGCyr063000, where he is not yet 'in charge of the reins'.
About the re-use of the stone as a sort of damnatio memoriae , see Savalli-Lestrade, 2009 Savalli-Lestrade, I., 2009, Usages civiques et usages dynastiques de la damnatio memoriae dans le monde hellénistique (323-30 av. J.-C.), in S. Benoist, A. Daguet-Gagey, C. Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, S. Lefebvre (eds), Mémoires partagées, mémoires disputées: écriture et réécriture de l'histoire, Metz, 127-158 - see in bibliography . The fact that the base honoring Cleopatra III was cancelled and re-used also confirms a date after the break-up between mother and son (so Criscuolo, 2011 Criscuolo, L., 2011, I due testamenti di Tolemeo VIII Evergete II, in A. Jördens, J.Fr. Quack (eds.), Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äusserem Druck: die Zeit Ptolemaios' VI. bis VIII.: internationales Symposion Heidelberg 16.-19.9.2007, Wiesbaden, 132-150 - see in bibliography .
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